Majority
of critical preservation work happens overnight leading up to weekend
closure of westbound lanes

Chronicle
staff

(SNOHOMISH
COUNTY) – The Washington State Dept. of Transportation
(WSDOT) says the Highway 2 preservation
and repaving project between the I-5 interchange and Bickford Avenue
in
Snohomish
is in full swing. Here’s what’s scheduled
for the coming week:

Last night,
contractor crews with Lakeside completed paving the mainline
of eastbound US 2 after the SR 204 interchange.

Starting at 8:00
p.m.this
Sunday night, the eastbound lanes will be closed
for repaving work. The lanes will reopen every morning by 5:00
a.m. This nightly closure ends at 5:00
a.m.Tuesday (weather
permitting).

Detour signs will take
travelers to 20th Street Southeast during this closure.

Westbound
US 2 overnight lane reduction

Starting Monday night
at 8:00
p.m. the westbound Hewitt Avenue trestle will be
reduced to one lane for overnight traffic. It will be back to two lanes
by 4:00
a.m. every morning. This weeknight closure
happens through Friday,
May 25.

Eastbound
US 2 overnight ramp closures-
NEW
NIGHTS

This Saturday night
at 10:00
p.m., crews will alternate closing
the eastbound US 2 ramp to SR 204, and the eastbound US 2 ramp to 20th
Street Southeast.

The work will wrap
up by 6:00
am.Sunday morning.

The same
alternating closure will be in place overnight Tuesday until 6:00
a.m.Wednesday morning.

The SR 204 and 20th
Street Southeast ramps will not be closed simultaneously.

20th
Street Southeast ramp closure

Starting this
Saturday night at 9:00
p.m. the ramp from 20th Street Southeast to
westbound US 2 will be closed overnight.

The ramp reopens
by 4:00
a.m.Sunday morning.

The same closure
will be in place overnight Monday until 4:00
a.m.Tuesday morning.

Again,
this is a lot to take in so word o the wise: save
the Snohomish
County construction page to
your favorites. WSDOT
will
post weekly updates on all project closures in the county on that
page.

SR
9 at 108th down to one lane overnight

Every
week night starting Monday at 8:00
p.m., SR
9 at 108th Street in Marysville will
be down to one lane that will alternate directions until 5:00
a.m. the
following morning. Crews have just started work on a new roundabout
to improve the safety of that intersection. A flagger will be guiding
traffic during this lane reduction.

Slough
closures

This
week brings multiple overnight closures and reductions to our
I-5 project at the Ebey Slough Bridge. There’s a
lot of them so
head on
over to the Snohomish
County construction page for
those details.